Bryan Jawinski concentrates on his breathing, which controls a character in a video game, at the Rochester Institute of Technology on Friday.

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When Rochester Institute of Technology vice president Ryne Raffaelle sought ways the university could leverage technology to improve the lives of people with disabilities, he discovered lots of stuff already in the works.

In an effort to further encourage the students and faculty involved in those projects, RIT recently awarded 15 teams a total of more than $100,000 in seed funding for what they call "effective access technology projects."